2020 Ford Transit Battery Installation and Pre-Fusebox || Detailed review with driver seat removed
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- This video documents the original installation configuration of the 2020 Ford Transit Cargo van battery. I recorded this video while investigating my options for adding a 2nd battery (i.e. a "house" battery) to supply power for auxiliary equipment. My goal was to install a battery that could be charged by the engine's alternator, but not draw current from the battery used to start the engine. In a separate set of videos, I documented the final solution I used to provide a house battery under the passenger seat.
Take note of the fuse shown at 2:48 The fuse location is what the Ford owners manual calls Item #7 ("Camper"). The conductor aka, CCP (Customer Connection Point) originally had a 60amp fuse from the factory, but I replaced it with a 40amp fuse for the purpose of conservatively protecting my DC-DC charger circuit for my Battleborn house battery. Subsequent to the recording of this video when I was installing the Battleborn battery, I was able to change this fuse by using a long pair of surgical hemostats (as pliers) and not have to remove the seat and numerous other parts (shown in this video) to access the Pre-Fuse Box, but this was very tricky!
The Victron charger output is rated at 30amps. I used a 6 AWG copper battery wire to supply the charger with a run length of less than 10ft. The Ampacity rating for the copper 6AWG wire is 55 amps at 60 deg-C.
Note: at 2:15 while looking at the Pre-Fuse Box, holes are submerged and visible in the cover that allow electrical probes to pass thru for the purpose of measuring voltage at aligned fuse locations.
Watch these videos for my final house battery solution:
This DIY, How-To video shares the Design objective, hardware, and materials I used to install a Battleborn LiFePO4 deep cycle battery in a 2020 Ford Transit, under the passenger seat, for use as a "2nd battery (a.k.a. leisure or house battery).
• Battleborn LiFePO4 Bat...
This DIY, How-To video shares the Design objective, hardware, and materials I used to install a Victron DC - DC Smart, Isolated, Charger 12 12 30 in a 2020 Ford Transit, under the passenger seat. It will charge my 2nd battery (a.k.a. leisure or house battery).
• Victron DC-DC Charger ...
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I'm a mechanic.
I barely give compliments on videos unless it's a good video.
This one, it's excellent !!
Thanks.
Glad you liked it! I'm sure you can see how horrible it would be to access his battery if it was necessary to replace it or service the fuse box. One of the reasons I made this video was so I could be prepared if I needed to access the area again. Way too much complexity!
So, I’m thinking that I can connect my DC to DC charger to the customer connection point that has a 60 A fuse. Thanks for taking all that apart and posting the video. I own a 2020 Ford Transit 250. 😊👏
I finished setting up my Orion dc-dc just a few minutes ago using the seat pin… works great.
You're welcome. Make sure you size the fuse for the equipment you will run. I removed the 60 amp fuse and put a 40 amp fuse in place because of the gauge of wiring I used and the loads I anticipated.
Did you see this video of mine about my DC to DC charger?
th-cam.com/video/_u7g8gHhZGA/w-d-xo.html
Look thru my channel for other videos that help understand battery system. See this playlist
My 2020 Ford Transit: th-cam.com/play/PLZEb8ngMuMU1b_6ev_eprqBzh88Jfr1bE.html
Nice, thank you
You are welcome
Hey guys I have a quick question: Do you think I could connect my maintenance charging (trickle charging) device with the customer connection point? to keep the battery alive during the winter days...
reason why I ask: Our Ford Transit stands on a public parking lot in the city, so we have no shore power (230v) supply there - but we have huge power station! so we want to charge the Ford Transit battery with our charging device the gets power from that big power station standing inside of the car. So we could load it from inside... As we do not want to unmount the driver's seat, to get access to the battery we thougth of connecting it with the CCP.
Do you think this would work?
I know even the power station will be empty at some time but it would at least extend the capacity for a few days...
If power can come out that way to CCP from the engine starting battery without the ignition switch on, then power can go in that way to charge your battery. I don't recall if CCP is always live, but you can test it with a voltmeter, otherwise you will just have to connect to the battery directly. The engine battery is underneath the driver seat. Just make sure your connections aren't going to have a short circuit when not connected.
Ok thank you! And I already measured it with Multimeter, found "plus" in the middle of the ccp and at the top a contact with a screw on it and at the bottom a contact without a screw on top of it - they are both "minus". Does it even matter what of the two comtacts I use or "minus"? For can I use both of them?
Where would a utility battery be placed on the transit??
I placed mine underneath the passenger seat, but had to lay it on its side to clear the seat movement plane. I used a lithium iron phosphate battery from battleborn and I made a TH-cam video about the installation and how I charge it from my DC to DC victron charger. Look for these videos on my channel
Do you know what bolts size for those CCPs? thank you
I would have to research it, but is your objective to figure out what size termination lug you need for a wire? I might be able to pull up my terminal size from my purchase record with Amazon.
@@biketothetop we need to bolt cable plug into CCP ports but did not know what size of bolt to get from Home Depot
Why don’t we just have 100A or higher inline fuse connect to bolt on busbar and 100a DC DC charger instead of get Ford kit as it dealer is never know and very hard to locate.
We plan to use (2) Renogy DC DC Charger :
50a connect to 60a CCP1
60a connect to 100a as state above.
It is unclear if you have a question or what your point is. For safety, make sure the fuses upstream of the customer connection points (CCP's) are sized properly for the wire size/wire current capacity that you add/use downstream of each CCP. I'm not aware of the components used in your complete system, but they must be properly matched.
@@biketothetop What we said is instead of get Ford CCP2 kit, just connect a inline fuse to cut off switch ( if needed) and of course proper wire size to connect to DC DC charger.